Neochmia personata harterti Mathews

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 107

Neochmia personata harterti Mathews

Neochmia personata harterti Mathews, 1912a: 434 (North-West Australia (Napier Broome Bay)).

Now Poephila personata personata Gould, 1842 . See Mayr et al., 1968: 359–360; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 755–756; Dickinson, 2003: 732; and Payne, 2010: 358.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721671 , adult male, collected at Napier Broome Bay , 14.02S, 126.37E ( USBGN, 1957) northwestern Western Australia, Australia, on 16 December 1909, by G.F. Hill (no. 150). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5733) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the type and the range as ‘‘ North-West Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to the original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was the model for Mathews (1926: 252, pl. 575, bottom fig., opp. p. 251), where it is confirmed as the type of harterti . Paratypes are: Napier Broome Bay, AMNH 721672 (Mathews no. 5732), male, 16 December 1909 ; AMNH 721673 (6223), sex?, 30 June 1910, both collected by Hill.